The 23rd annual NCHE (Homeschool) conference going on through Saturday in downtown Winston-Salem at the Benton Convention Center. Details on-line… www.nche.com Thursday, Friday and Saturday (May 24 25 26)
The original Star Wars movie turns 30 today. Thirty years ago ( May 25, 1977 ) Star Was opened in just 32 theaters nationwide. -The History Channel will host a Star Wars special Monday at 9 p.m. (i-Report: Your "Star Wars" memories)
For the first time, a Davidson County high school has made Newsweek’s list of America’s Best High Schools. North Davidson High School was one of over 12-hundred high schools that comprised this year’s list. Among the top-ranked schools making the Newsweek list locally…
13 schools in Guilford County and two schools in Forsyth County.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18757087/?sort=Rank&count=1236&start=0&limit=100&year=2007&Search=north%20carolina
A Wake County judge ruling yesterday that any religious text…not just the Bible can be used to swear in a witness or juror in North Carolina’s courtrooms. The ACLU argued that limiting the text to the Bible was unconstitutional because it favored Christianity over other religions. The state has 30 days to appeal. (journalnow.com)
President Bush will get his War Funding Bill for Iraq. Both the House and Senate approving the $120 billion dollar war spending bill…with no troop withdrawal deadline attached. (USA Radio News)
Pro-life bill becomes law in Oklahoma. A bill prohibiting public funds from being used for most abortions has become law in Oklahoma.
A $50 million dollar federal grant for abstinence funding will expire next month and Democrats in Congress say they’re not inclined to renew it.
Approximately 700 –to- 900 abstinence programs across the country would be affected. (Family News in Focus)
CDC survey: Nearly three out of four U.S. homes are considered Non-Smoking. Less than half of all homes surveyed were smoke-free 10 years ago.-Nine in ten Utah homes are smoke free; in Kentucky, a little over half
The CDC report was based on a national survey done mostly by telephone every two years.
Locally…One of the oldest restaurants in downtown WS…The Lighthouse Restaurant will go smoke-free June 1st. (CNN)
Sports: The Coca Cola 600 (Sunday) at Lowes Motor Speedway
A shoe store that former Philippines first lady Imelda Marcos would get lost in: New York's famed Saks Fifth Avenue department store plans to open a shoe department so big it has been granted its own ZIP code. Saks department store plans to nearly double the number of shoes for sale and take over the entire eighth floor of its flagship store in Manhattan.
The expanded department will open in September under the name 10022-SHOE.
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN2435153420070524
In Las Vegas…an oversized American flag and flagpole has city officials and an auto dealership at odds over patriotism and over the top advertising. The city has receiving more than 100 e-mail messages since the City Council last week ordered Towbin Hummer to take down its 100-foot flagpole and his big flag, which at 30 feet by 60 feet is about the size of a competition volleyball court. Mayor Oscar Goodman blamed the dealership for not keeping a promise to build a small veterans memorial with the tall pole. Get us a memorial, and then we can talk about a flag in excess of 40 feet," said Goodman, who last year endorsed letting the dealership exceed the city's 40-foot flagpole height restriction. -The Terrible Herbst gasoline and convenience store chain has several American flags around the city measuring 30 feet by 50 feet on poles 100 feet tall.
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